Law Students

Law and Economics For The 1L: Time Allocation

By Casebook Sherpa

This post is neither a homage to Judge Richard Posner and the Law and Economics movement nor a critique of it. That will come this summer ? I?ve purchased two books (one for, one against the movement) to read and provide comment. So, sorry.

Wherever I come down philosophically on the law and economics movement, I can say that the first-year evening law school student ? any 1L, really - does rely on a scare resource the allocation of which also, in part, animates that movement. The resource is time and the lack of it often dictates that efficiency and urgency trump substance and reflection (money, clearly, is another). This is not a complaint post (I pulled my hair out on that last week). Rather, I?m simply pointing out that time is expended in areas where one wouldn?t, prior to starting school, think it would be spent.

The general rule I’ve found, so far: time allocation does not necessarily increase for a class that is worth more credits. Say what?

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Full post as published by Fight The Hypo on February 01, 2008 (boomark / email).